Peg board hooking support rod

Abstract

A hook rod to be secured to a peg board for displaying articles. A pair of transverse inversely C-shaped fingers, at the top of a mounting bracket plate, releasably engage a pair of horizontally registering peg board bores for anchoring the bracket plate to the peg board. A rectangular sleeve is mounted on the upper portion of the bracket plate to define a vertical channel. An intermediately bent connector plate is fixedly secured at one end to the top face of the inner end of the hook rod, while the other end of the connector plate is releasably frictionally engageable in the vertical channel.

What I claim is: 
     
       1. A display hanger for a pegboard having a front and a rear face and provided with rows of bores, said hanger comprising a hook member and a mounting bracket for releasably connecting the hook member to the pegboard; said mounting bracket defining a main body provided at its top end with a pair of transverse anchoring fingers, said fingers being of arcuate-shape and adapted to engage a pair of horizontally-aligned pegboard bores and to rest against the pegboard rear face with the main body thereof flatly abutting against the pegboard front face; said hook member including: an elongated support rod member, having a horizontal top leg and a downturned leg projecting from the inner end portion of the top leg thereof, and a connector plate, having a horizontal top leg projecting from and anchored to the top face of said support rod member inner end portion and a downturned leg; further including a sleeve member mounted to the upper portion of said mounting bracket main body; said sleeve member defining a channel, said channel releasably frictionally engageable by said connector plate downturned leg; wherein upon hanging on said support rod member horizontal top leg a number of relatively heavy articles to be displayed, said hook member is prevented from downwardly collapsing under the load by the combined action of said rigid connector plate, the horizontal top leg of which is under tension by the weight of said hung articles, and of the resistance to flexion of said support rod member downturned leg which rests against said sleeve member; and wherein the support rod member is easily removable from said mounting bracket without having to remove said hung articles and with minimal vertical clearance. 
     
     
       2. A display hanger as in claim 1, wherein said support rod member makes with the plane of said mounting bracket main body an obtuse angle of about 115 degrees. 
     
     
       3. A display hanger as in claim 1, wherein said sleeve member is formed by a partially struckout portion of said mounting bracket main body integral with the latter at its two sides. 
     
     
       4. A display hanger as in claim 1, wherein said sleeve member is a rectangular extrusion made out from an upper section of said mounting bracket main body. 
     
     
       5. A display hanger as in claim 1, wherein each said arcuate finger is inversely C-shaped to form an anchor leg abutting against said pegboard rear face and at a position above the level of said connector plate; said anchor leg being wider than the remainder of said finger and abuttable against the pegboard rear face. 
     
     
       6. A display hanger as in claim 1, wherein said connector plate is made of a semiflexible metal leaf. 
     
     
       7. A display hanger as defined in claim 1, wherein said rigid connector plate horizontal top leg is of a wavy shape, to facilitate its anchoring to said inner end portion of said support rod member top leg by the method of spot-welding. 
     
     
       8. A display hanger as defined in claim 9, wherein said support rod member consists of a single rod forming a flattened loop, whose intermediate bent portion thereof is at the outer end of the support rod member horizontal leg, one end of said single rod abutting against the upper section of said sleeve member, the other end portion of said single rod forming said downturned rod member. 
     
     
       9. A display hanger as defined in claim 8, wherein said single rod other end portion defines a first downturned leg, approximately at right angle to said flattened loop portion, and a second leg projecting from the bottom end of the last=mentioned first leg and defining an axis approximately at right angle to both said flattened loop portion and the latter first leg, said first and second legs abutting against one side edge section and the bottom edge section of said sleeve member, respectively. 
     
     
       10. A display hanger as defined in claim 8, wherein said flattened loop intermediate bent portion is further slightly upwardly curved, to retain the hung article in place. 
     
     
       11. A display hanger as defined in claim 1, wherein said support rod member consists of a single rod forming a flattened loop whose intermediate bent portion is at the outer end of the support rod member horizontal leg, the two end portions of said single rod defining first and second downturned legs, each approximately at right angle to said flattened loop portion and abutting against one and the other side edge sections respectively of said sleeve member. 
     
     
       12. A display hanger as defined in claim 11, wherein said flattened loop intermediate bent portion is further slightly upwardly curved, to retain the hung article in place.